If spicy then mayo and cayenne pepper powder spread on rice on top of nori. Tempura is deep fried, rolled in rice and nori and sprinkled with eel sauce. a regular lobster roll is lobster, cuke and avocado rolled in rice and nori.
Oishii (in Chestnut Hill and Sudbury) does a fine lobster roll, but without the avocado (and I think with watercress), so I suspect that there isn't that much consistency on what constitutes a "regular" lobster roll. Also, the spicy ones I've seen don't use cayenne pepper powder; they have spicy sauce, probably on a mayo base.
In any case, I tend to see them written as "lobster maki", possibly to discourage people from thinking they're going to be getting something served in bread :) See, for example: http://www.nishnash.com/menus/view.php?r=r10766
Have you had lobster sashimi? One of our friends ordered it at Fugayku in Brookline. It was excellent, but we found that having the lobster arrive at the table still twitching was a bit overwhelming.
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Date: 2007-06-07 01:17 am (UTC)If spicy then mayo and cayenne pepper powder spread on rice on top of nori.
Tempura is deep fried, rolled in rice and nori and sprinkled with eel sauce.
a regular lobster roll is lobster, cuke and avocado rolled in rice and nori.
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Date: 2007-06-07 02:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-07 05:29 am (UTC)In any case, I tend to see them written as "lobster maki", possibly to discourage people from thinking they're going to be getting something served in bread :) See, for example: http://www.nishnash.com/menus/view.php?r=r10766
Have you had lobster sashimi? One of our friends ordered it at Fugayku in Brookline. It was excellent, but we found that having the lobster arrive at the table still twitching was a bit overwhelming.